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19443081N.p. but perhaps Oakland or Berkeley 1944. Very good. Printed broadside 5.25 x 8 inches. Minor foxing and staining light edge wear penciled note covering most of verso. A small and apparently unrecorded broadside calling for African Americans interested in working as bus drivers and street car operators in the San Francisco Bay Area during the latter portion of World War II. The notice calls for interested parties to apply at the offices of the East Bay Employment Association between 4:00 and 8:00 PM between December 1 and 9 1944. We could locate no information on the East Bay Employment Association but it was almost certainly located in either Oakland or Berkeley. This employment advertisement was perhaps the result of a wartime shortage of bus drivers and street car operators in the Bay Area. We could locate no other copies of this interesting and somewhat mysterious broadside. unknown
19741406<p>70 pp. collection of stories illustrated throughout. 8vo. Accent of California International Writers Series 2 Very good. Illus. stiff wraps. 1406</p><p><i>The Kentucky-born Los Angeleno author's debut short story collection including "The Price of Dirt" "The Way of Shadows" "In the Dark" "Waiting for Mongo" and "Roman Times" which won the Gwendolyn Brooks Literary Award in 1972. In his preface to the work Jones explains that "most of the stories in this collection employ modern literary techniques as diverse as impressionism and surrealism and especially important is the experimental synthesis of fantasy/realism. Myths and mythical notions for example are sometimes utilized in a campy fashion. Black field hand dialect might end up in the mouths of the most educated aristocrats. Nevertheless all of this is not only plausible and appropriate to the situation but also creates effects which are organically natural to the stories in this book. THE PRICE OF DIRT is the collected stories of a people's reactions to a fantastic world designed to exclude them and their reality." Scarce in the marketplace and institutionally uncommon.</i></p> Accent of California
190878141San Francisco: Edward Denny & Co 1908. Uncommon scale map of the densely forested rural county situated along the Pacific Coast in Northern California’s rugged Coast Ranges. Relief is shown by hachures and spot heights.<br />  <br /> The 16 ½†x 30 ¼†map is printed in blue and folds into printed red cardstock wrappers 4†x 6 ½â€. A few small ink smudges to the map. The wrappers are edgeworn with some minor staining along the lower edge. Scarce OCLC locates only 4 holdings: Library of Congress Stanford Davis and Berkeley. Edward Denny & Co unknown
59219San Francisco: P.P. Tornich ca 1922. Three vintage silver-gelatin prints approx. 7-1/2" x 9-1/2" one slightly smaller on commercial mounts ca 11" x 14." The prints show mild surface wear but are clean and retain excellent contrast; moderate soiling to mounts; Near Fine. One mount printed with the photographer's address 110 Congo Street San Francisco at lower right; one image captioned in the negative "Croatian Club Banquet / Feb 11 - 1922 / P.P. Tornich photo" with photographer's embossed stamp at lower left; third image unsigned but clearly from the same or a similar event and in a mount of similar style and date. <br /> <br /> Three excellent portraits documenting a meeting of the San Francisco branch of the Hrvatski Sokol a Croatian nationalist membership organization founded in Prague in 1862. The Sokol was modeled on the German turnverein emphasizing gymnastics and physical culture while promoting nationalist sentiment and military preparedness. In the United States the sokols persisted as a means for Croatian immigrants to retain their national identity against the intense pressures of assimilation they faced in their adopted homeland. <br /> <br /> The photographs - all group portraits - depict banquet attendees in various costumes ranging from conventional business attire to traditional hunting outfits including feathered caps. In one photograph the group's banner is prominently displayed hanging over a long banquet table the traditional Croatian hawk surrounded by the words "Hrvatski Sokol / San Francisco Cal." <br /> <br /> Of the photographer P.P. Tornich we can discover little regarding his professional activities. The Bancroft Library records one holding for an album of Tornich photographs dated 1933 published by the Portola View Company of the first convention of the Slavonic Alliance of California; we find no other institutional records of work by this artist. However Tornich appears to have been a prominent figure in Slavic-American circles in San Francisco serving for at least fifteen years as an officer of the Slavonic Illyric Mutual Benevolent Society for at least three of which he was the Society's President based on advertisements in the San Francisco Call 1897-1912. unknown
191452020Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1914. First Edition. First printing. 12mo 18.5cm. Publisher's red cloth boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; 349pp; illus. This copy with a 3-pp holograph letter from Henry H. Knibbs laid onto front pastedown. Copy of American journalist David G. Baillie recipient of the letter inscribed by him to his son Hugh on front free endpaper dated Christmas 1920. Tight Very Good copy with mild fading to spine. First page of letter is laid down to front pastedown; second page is loosely laid in. <br /> <br /> An early anonymously-published work by the prolific California author best-known for his work in the genre of Western fiction. The title character "Overland Red" is described on the "Buddies in the Saddle" website as a "former sheriff of Abilene now an itinerant hobo on the run from the law in Barstow where he's mistakenly believed to have killed a man. Living rough he has his wits and plenty of grit to keep him going" see: buddiesinthesaddle.blogspot. <br /> <br /> The included letter is undated addressed from Knibbs to the American journalist David G. Baillie at this time Editor of the Los Angeles Times inviting Baillie to a soirée at Knibbs' apartment on Cole Avenue in Los Angeles - ".nothing formal just cigars and chat out here on the edge of things." and includes a brief note on the present work: ".keep an eye on 'Overland Red' - he is now in a large third edition and I have netted over five thousand dollars so far on advance sales." A later gift inscription transfers the book from David Baillie to his son Hugh noting in the inscription that the book ".was published anonymously and caused much guessing until Knibbs 'acknowledged responsibility.'. Houghton Mifflin unknown
76897Unique collection of labels representing a variety of camera clubs in Southern California during their heyday from the 1930s through the ‘50s. This grouping represents 20 different Southern California camera clubs one Chicago camera club and two versions of labels for amateur photographer Al Carah a Fellow of the Southern California Council of Camera Clubs in 1955.<br /> <br /> As cameras became more accessible during the first decade of the 20th century a number of serious amateur photographers reacted to the snapshot craze by forming organizations dedicated to promoting photography as a fine art rather than as a popular pastime or commercial pursuit. Camera club members were able to participate in competitions and study groups designed to advance their photographic knowledge and skills.<br /> <br /> A detailed list of all 23 labels is available upon request. unknown
1891WRCAM44045San Francisco 1891. Lithographed map 19 x 15 1/4 inches. Old folds. Small separations at three crossfolds with slight loss. Edgewear. Good. Detailed map of waterways owned by the Honey Lake Valley Land and Water Company. Honey Lake is located just inside the California border between Lassen National Park and Pyramid Lake. The map is done on a scale of one inch to the mile. OCLC locates a single copy of this map alone at the University of California at Berkeley and there is also a copy in the David Rumsey map collection. This map was originally published as part of the company's very rare 1891 publication ENGINEERS' REPORTS TO THE HONEY LAKE VALLEY LAND AND WATER COMPANY ON ITS IRRIGATION SYSTEM IN HONEY LAKE VALLEY LASSEN COUNTY CAL. OCLC 26651109. ROCQ 2622 ref. unknown books
192953265Big Bear City CA: The club Press of Jackson Printing Co. Pasadena 1929. First edition. 4to. 16 pp. Illustrated half-tones color vignettes map color illustrated calendar of activities by month. Includes trout fishing in streams and lakes duck and deer hunting along with equestrian sports snow sports boating golf and tennis. Rocq 7157. OCLC locates four copies Claremont California State Library California-Berkeley SMU. Original two-color and gilt-stamped embossed green cloth rubbed some soiling tied. Large label removed from rear pastedown but a very good copy of this elaborate promotional. 979. <br/><br/> The club (Press of Jackson Printing Co., Pasadena) hardcover books
1859WRCAM14067San Francisco 1859. 4432pp. Original calf backed cloth. Calf scuffed and rubbed a couple signatures starting slightly. Contemporary presentation inscription light scattered foxing. Good. One of only two state registers published the other in 1857. Prints the state constitution and political statistics and describes the resources industries and individual counties. Decorative sections of advertisements are in the front and rear. COWAN p.610. CALIFORNIA IMPRINTS 1173. hardcover books
19051415Los Angeles: M. Rieder 1905. About very good. 18pp. accordion folded in nine panels. Original brown printed wrappers. Text separated from wrappers. Some light wear and soiling. Promotional viewbook for Redondo Beach featuring images of the beach street scenes the wharf and fishing activities and a four-panel panoramic view of "Hotel Redondo - the Queen of the Pacific." Rare. We locate two copies in OCLC at the California State Library and UC Berkeley. M. Rieder unknown books
70652Very good. An album containing thirty 4" x 4" black and white photographs of Catalina Island at the turn of the century. Four of the photographs are laid in; the rest are secured in the album with photo corners built into the pages. There are no markings in the album or on the photographs with the exception of a stamp noting that the photographs were printed by Merick Reynolds Co. on Broadway in Los Angeles. The album contains a variety of images of men women and children in Victorian dress and a few coastal shots. Notably the album includes a photograph of two women climbing up the steep wooden ladder of Sugarloaf Rock in Avalon Harbor. Remarkably they are in Victorian dress with long skirts. Sugarloaf Rock was graded and blasted away to make way for a hotel where ultimately the Catalina Casino was built in 1919. The album also includes a photograph of the S.S. Hermosa at the long pier in Avalon Harbor. The Hermosa according to an article in the 2007 Catalina Islander newspaper was launched in 1888 by the Wilmington Transportation Company and was the largest and most elegant vessel of its kind on the West Coast. It was a wooden ship 141 feet in length and capable of carrying 150 passengers. The well-known Hungarian Orchestra usually accompanied passengers on the almost three-hour crossing. She was decommission in 1902 stripped of her luxuries and burned in Avalon Bay during a 4th of July celebration. The album is bound in gray heavy paper wraps. All in very good condition. unknown books
1896040280Chicago: Rand McNally & Co. 1896. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good. 48pp; frontispiece and 17 other illustrations from photographs map 7"x7". Bound in pictorial cream wrappers cover picture red lettering. Small dampmark at foot of spine otherwise in fine condition. 7" x 4.5" With Andrew McNally as President and E.D. Neff as Manager the La Mirada Land Company sought to promote their 2300-acre La Mirada town site and orchard tract 17 miles southeast of Los Angeles. This booklet covers the climate of coastal California the 1895 Tournament of Roses at Pasadena the impressions of Dr. Chauncey Depew Southern California colonies access by rail olive and lemon orchards the surf at Long Beach Lake Windermere irrigation olive oil production uses and profits etc. The topographical map shows the locations and acreages of various crops on the property of the La Mirada Land Company and Windermere Ranch. <br/><br/> [Rand, McNally & Co.] paperback books
1898252146San Francisco 1898. Original brass skeleton-style key 13â„4 inches in length attached by a small chain to a 4 x 13â„4 inch brass tag. Expected wear rubbing and discoloration. Very good. In a half morocco and cloth folding case spine gilt. Apparently an original brass key for box 151 of the Navada National Bank of San Francisco. The bank was founded in January 1898 and this key would seem to be contemporaneous with its opening. A nice piece of San Francisco and Wells Fargo financial realia. unknown books
189534152Oakland Ca CA 1895. First Edition. 22pp. 22pp. of text and 29pp of multiple illustrations including a birds eye view of Oakland colleges buildings etc.Original gold stamped oblong 4to pictorial clothsome old soiling to covers hardcover books
1858WRCAM50106San Francisco 1858. 3021pp. Modern buckram gilt leather labels. Minor rubbing to labels library shelf label on spine. Faint ink library stamps on titlepage titlepage and next two leaves detached mild toning. Good. Second edition revised and enlarged. An early California law regulating civil courts with notes and index by Henry J. Labatt. Also includes a list of the state's highest- ranking legal officials with the expiration dates for the terms of the Supreme Court judges. Scarce with only seventeen copies in OCLC. OCLC 17349274. hardcover books
1856WRCAM50103San Francisco 1856. 1671xxxvii i.e. xli pp. Modern buckram gilt leather labels. Mild dust-soiling light chipping to one label library shelf label on spine. Faint ink library stamp on titlepage. Internally clean. Very good. An early California law regulating civil courts with notes appendix and index by Henry J. Labatt. With "Revised Errata" slip laid in. Though twenty-six copies appear in OCLC this work seems to be rare in the market. OCLC 17349267. hardcover books
1877253071San Francisco: P.J. Thomas 1877. Plates some folding. 192pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Later black buckram spine gilt. Light soiling to front endpapers. Frontispiece with some repaired closed tears other paper breaks not repaired. Internally clean. About very good. Plates some folding. 192pp. 1 vols. 8vo. An illustrated account of the Catholic missions in California. The frontispiece shows St. Mary's College. Cowan notes that some copies were issued with a large map of San Francisco which is not present in this volume. Cowan p.166 P.J. Thomas unknown books
1852218651Washington D.C.: Printed at the Congressional Globe Office 1852. 8 pp. 1 vols. Removed. 8 pp. 1 vols. FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office] unknown books
198448959Navarro California: Wild Trees Press 1984. First edition. Near fine. Inscribed first printing of this collection of short stories from the Black Playwright of the Year winner with a foreword by Alice Walker. J. California Cooper credits THE COLOR PURPLE's Alice Walker for encouraging her transition from plays to short stories. Walker and her partner Robert Allen established the Wild Tree Press in 1984 and Walker notes in her foreword that it "could have been created especially for A PIECE OF MINE." 8.5'' x 5.25''. Original color pictorial wrappers. 124 pages. Inscribed by Cooper to title page "To / Charles / Love & peace" dated 2/91. Wrapper with light edgewear. Tight. Wild Trees Press unknown
191452020Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1914. First Edition. First printing. 12mo 18.5cm. Publisher's red cloth boards lettered in black on spine and front cover; 349pp; illus. This copy with a 3-pp holograph letter from Henry H. Knibbs laid onto front pastedown. Copy of American journalist David G. Baillie recipient of the letter inscribed by him to his son Hugh on front free endpaper dated Christmas 1920. Tight Very Good copy with mild fading to spine. First page of letter is laid down to front pastedown; second page is loosely laid in. <br/><br/>An early anonymously-published work by the prolific California author best-known for his work in the genre of Western fiction. The title character "Overland Red" is described on the "Buddies in the Saddle" website as a "former sheriff of Abilene now an itinerant hobo on the run from the law in Barstow where he's mistakenly believed to have killed a man. Living rough he has his wits and plenty of grit to keep him going" see: buddiesinthesaddle.blogspot. <br/><br/>The included letter is undated addressed from Knibbs to the American journalist David G. Baillie at this time Editor of the Los Angeles Times inviting Baillie to a soirée at Knibbs' apartment on Cole Avenue in Los Angeles - ".nothing formal just cigars and chat out here on the edge of things." and includes a brief note on the present work: ".keep an eye on 'Overland Red' - he is now in a large third edition and I have netted over five thousand dollars so far on advance sales." A later gift inscription transfers the book from David Baillie to his son Hugh noting in the inscription that the book ".was published anonymously and caused much guessing until Knibbs 'acknowledged responsibility.'. Houghton Mifflin unknown books
010269This is a graphic sign printed on thick paper 13 1/2" x 14" issued in ca. 1910 promoting "Fishing - Boating - Swimming." The lake area also has "Wonderful Mineral Springs." Abrams Lakes is located at the base of Mt. Shasta in Siskiyou County. The name "Abrams Lakes" was a typographical error and the correct name is and always has been Abrams Lake. The image shows a canoeist on the lake with Mt. Shasta in the background. A rare sign. There are no examples found in public or private university collections or public libraries. Quite attractive. In very good condition with a small chip at the upper left corner and light edge wear. unknown
1906100743<p>Newspaper 8x10 single sheet printed on both sides. Browned and brittle skinned area of verso obliterating a small area of text small hole and minor tears. Rare complete "day after" newspaper account of the damage done to Santa Rosa by the devastating earthquake of April 18 1906. Unlike San Francisco where fires ultimately did most of the damage in Santa Rosa most of the destruction was done by the tremor itself leaving most of the business section in ruin.</p> The Press Democrat
1906100743Newspaper 8x10 single sheet printed on both sides. Browned and brittle skinned area of verso obliterating a small area of text small hole and minor tears. Rare complete "day after" newspaper account of the damage done to Santa Rosa by the devastating earthquake of April 18 1906. Unlike San Francisco where fires ultimately did most of the damage in Santa Rosa most of the destruction was done by the tremor itself leaving most of the business section in ruin. The Press Democrat unknown books
190710724Mill Valley California 1907. Second Edition. 8 x 5.75" rebound in beige cloth with black spine title 128 pp. Second Edition of Mill Valley's first cookbook which initially appeared in 1902. The recipes are attributed to local women and include Buckwheat Bread Kopecks New Orleans Gumbo Soup Poor Man's Soup Italian Fish Swiss Salad Dressing and Chiles Rellenos; there is also a recipe for "Tipsy Pudding" or pudding soaked in alcoholic beverages and a recipe for "White Whine Punch for Ladies". OCLC calls for 20 pages of advertisements at the end however Axford in "English Language Cookbooks 1600-1973" calls for 128 pages like this copy. A very attractive copy with a hint of toning. hardcover
1967245897City of Huntington Beach 1967. Official Program. Illustrated. 20 pp. 4to. Fine. Official Program. Illustrated. 20 pp. 4to. RARE. unknown books
